Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, will we?

 (Someone posted this picture and another person wrote this awesome response

 that gives us hope) 

Alhamdulillah!

Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we? Without Muslims

 you wouldn't have:

- Coffee

- Cameras

- Experimental Physics

- Chess

- Soap

- Shampoo

- Perfume/spirits

- Irrigation

- Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons

- Combination locks

- Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted

 this technique as it made 

the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)

- Surgical instruments

- Anesthesia

- Windmill

- Treatment of Cowpox

- Fountain pen

- Numbering system

- Algebra/Trigonometry

- Modern Cryptology

- Crystal glasses

- Carpets

- Checks

- University

- Optics

- Toothbrush

- Hospitals

- Bathing

- Quilting

- Mariner’s Compass

- Soft drinks

- Pendulum

- Braille

- Cosmetics

- Plastic surgery

- Calligraphy

- Manufacturing of paper and cloth

It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.

It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright 

Brothers who have taken the credit.

It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the 

founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He 

invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also 

discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.

It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.

It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V’s castle.

It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a

 technique still used today.

It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to

 treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey

It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and 

Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci

 and the rest.

It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before

 Galileo did.

The list goes on and on..

Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, 

JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. 

And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without 

those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. 

No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy 

McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Andreas Brevik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot 

Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had 

nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with terrorism.